Forspoken has one of the best battle and movement gameplay systems in gaming, or at the very least in the “power fantasy sandbox” genre. Its story and dialogue are also a very cute, earnest take on Isekai that didn’t deserve the backlash they got. It has its flaws but it’s absolutely nowhere close to being the utter cringe-fest and terrible game that people like Asmongold successfully convinced the rest of the internet it was (because it has a female POC protagonist, basically). Personally, as someone who wanted to live the ultimate elemental wizard power-fantasy in a game since I was a child, Forspoken gave me everything I wanted and more (like cats! Lots of adorable cats).
The main issue, to me (based on videos), was how empty the world was.
Seems like they had great gameplay, but at some point it doesn’t matter when you’ve got nowhere interesting to go and you’re fighting the same enemies over and over
But yeah, I agree with the unnecessary backlash. Just reeks of right wing gamer gate chuds.
Suddenly they were super worried about good dialogue in video games, and I’m sure it had nothing to do with the color or gender of the MC.
Yeah, Forspoken has been on my list since I saw some high level gameplay and someone saying the traversal was like having inFamous with more lateral speed.
Forspoken has one of the best battle and movement gameplay systems in gaming, or at the very least in the “power fantasy sandbox” genre. Its story and dialogue are also a very cute, earnest take on Isekai that didn’t deserve the backlash they got. It has its flaws but it’s absolutely nowhere close to being the utter cringe-fest and terrible game that people like Asmongold successfully convinced the rest of the internet it was (because it has a female POC protagonist, basically). Personally, as someone who wanted to live the ultimate elemental wizard power-fantasy in a game since I was a child, Forspoken gave me everything I wanted and more (like cats! Lots of adorable cats).
The main issue, to me (based on videos), was how empty the world was.
Seems like they had great gameplay, but at some point it doesn’t matter when you’ve got nowhere interesting to go and you’re fighting the same enemies over and over
But yeah, I agree with the unnecessary backlash. Just reeks of right wing gamer gate chuds.
Suddenly they were super worried about good dialogue in video games, and I’m sure it had nothing to do with the color or gender of the MC.
Yeah, Forspoken has been on my list since I saw some high level gameplay and someone saying the traversal was like having inFamous with more lateral speed.